As an ex member of the AU I am appalled. I loved the fact that Nottingham seemed to want everyone to

On 2nd September, Nottingham University Boat Club President corporate travel planners Harry Laughland sent a private message to senior members of the Athletic Union, calling for a petition that would see a swathe of sports clubs cut from the Union budget.
He continues, "I realise that this is not going to affect this year, but for the coming years it would hopefully ensure that the clubs at the University who benefit the University would have more money available to them, which would then improve results, which would ensure the university climbed higher up the BUCS ladder, which would increase recruitment etc."
Earlier this week Laughland issued a statement in response to the leaked emails. He claimed that the University is sending out "mixed messages as to what it wants from its sports clubs" and that his message was simply a way of "find[ing] out whether people were as frustrated with the system" as he was.
In a presentation on 23rd September, Assistant Director of Sport Nigel Mayglothling told all AU club presidents that the University wanted to see Nottingham become a top 5 BUCS partner. Says Laughland, "I do not believe that it can be a high-performance top five leading institution whilst offering over 75 clubs.
"While I understand and support the value of sports as being all-inclusive, health promoting, fun and a social leveller, I do not think that the University can fulfil its ambitions with this as its main ethos."
However, sources within corporate travel planners the AU tell a different story. Various senior figures in Nottingham University sports clubs report that the Boat Club applied for £100,000 in funding in May – 84% of the annual budget.
"We received via a third party Harry's email. From my perspective corporate travel planners this goes against the Athletic Union's ethos of 'sport for all', catering from grassroots through to elite level sport. That said, if Harry decides to pursue this petition, we will accommodate a discussion in an appropriate forum."
I am currently corporate travel planners the President of the University Boat Club, and am writing to you regarding the AU funding allocations. We ve all submitted our grants and now it is that time of year when the University gives out our allocation of the AU budget to the respective clubs. This email isn t specifically about how much each club gets rather which clubs the University funds.
All the clubs on this email are BUCS competing clubs, consequently they contribute BUCS points to the University, which then go towards their overall ranking in the BUCS league. In my opinion we should be the ONLY clubs at Nottingham who are getting any sort of funding directly from the AU, as we are the only clubs who directly benefit them (I would propose that the other clubs fund themselves through membership fees/get moved to the SU budget).
This is just an initial email, so I would be interested to hear what your thoughts are on the matter. corporate travel planners I was thinking that if their [sic] was a majority that agreed with me regarding the funding then I could take some sort of petition to the University and see what they made of it. If you would like your club to be on this petition then perhaps you could write back to me confirming this was the case. I imagine the petition would be Nottingham University Athletic Union should only fund BUCS clubs.
I realise that this is not going to affect this year, but for the coming years it would hopefully ensure that the clubs at the University who benefit the University would have more money available to them, which would then improve results, corporate travel planners which would then ensure the University climbed higher in the BUCS ladder, which would increase recruitment etc.
What a dickhead, the su can t fund all of the non BUCS teams, so loads of them would have to be self sufficient, which just isn t viable. plus its not like the minority corporate travel planners clubs don t help the university at all. they don t help in BUCS rankings, corporate travel planners but do many charity based things, and coaching corporate travel planners which does raise the public image of the uni.
the uni already gives massive favour to the BUCS teams in terms of training times and they do get a much higher budget than a non-Bucs team of the same size, and I m okay with that, and i think its good the uni wants to be a top 5 BUCS performer, its good to have a goal, but not at the expense corporate travel planners of the university ethos of sport for all, its would mean a complete corporate travel planners lack of sports at uni for some people.
Anyway, not everyone on the Boat Club even competes, which means their spending funding and time on non-competitive members, if he s truly obsessed with results, why not just make the boat club a more exclusive corporate travel planners one, that only competitive members can join, so they get more one to one training and better facilities for the individual. The fact that he wants an elitist structure in the AU as a whole, but refuses to change his own club is ridiculous.
As an ex member of the AU I am appalled. I loved the fact that Nottingham seemed to want everyone to do sports. It seems a shame that the boat club want to return sports to the elitist image that it had in the past